I enjoyed this. I felt like I was in the room experiencing the sights, sounds and smells.

Sep 29, 2013

GOOD JOBNEWby: Anonymous

Good job. Sounds like a dreadful experience.

Sep 29, 2013

Great ImageryNEWby: Arob

Could relate to the vivid descriptions, and the interpretations we create as children.

Sep 29, 2013

vivid imageryNEWby: Angela

The author captured that feeling of terror one experiences as a child, often unbeknownst to the adults in their lives, and the subsequent connection you have for a lifetime when that memory is triggered.

Sep 29, 2013

memories relivedNEWby: Allie-Lou

My goodness, did I ever identify with this. Even 70 years later, the smell of Vicks came back and instead of the clomp, it was the ping of the metal top. I love stories that bring back good memories.
The terror seems to have been forgotten

Sep 29, 2013

Insight NEWby: ML

Your story captures how routine things can be viewed as scary
in our childhood imaginations and how as children we kept our fears to ourselves and endured.